1-1     By:  Stiles (Senate Sponsor - Harris)                 H.B. No. 3190

 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 2, 1997;

 1-3     May 5, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on

 1-4     Jurisprudence; May 13, 1997, reported favorably by the following

 1-5     vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 13, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to the holding of certain court proceedings outside the

 1-9     municipality designated as the county seat.

1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 292.002(b), Local Government Code, is

1-12     amended to read as follows:

1-13           (b)  The commissioners court may authorize places located in

1-14     the county but outside the municipality designated as the county

1-15     seat as auxiliary courts for the holding of [nonjury] court

1-16     proceedings and may designate those places as auxiliary county

1-17     seats for this purpose.

1-18           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-19     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-20     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-21     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-22     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-23     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-24     passage, and it is so enacted.

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